Ted Cruz left his twitter followers stunned after his account ‘liked’ a hardcore porn video.

Ted’s account compromised

Ted Cruz, the Texas senator’s account liked a pornographic video. He said that an aide was responsible for the ‘like’ that made the x-rated clip to appear on his feed for short time. Cruz told the reporters that it was not he who liked the tweet. Whosoever had access to his account liked the pornographic video on late Monday night but was redacted early on Tuesday. However, it is said to be an inadvertent issue from the staff and was not done deliberately.

The details of the incidence

The video clip that appeared in his likes was a 2 minute 20-second snippet of a video. It was from a website called Reality Kings. This website posts adult videos and promises “Full-Length HD Porn Posted Every Day.” .A twitter account named Sexual Posts posted the video on its page from where it was liked by Cruz’s official twitter page @tedcruz. The video had been floating around the internet for over a year.

Bad dream for Cruz

Cruz’s team will be making an internal effort to find the person responsible for liking the video. He informed the reporters that he never envisioned waking up like this. Cruz further said that the act was a mistake and not done with malicious intentions. The disappearance of the ‘like’ was noticed by his communications director early Tuesday.

Twitter had a field day

Many people had a field day on twitter. However, unlike the ‘like’ which disappeared on the click of a button, the memory lingers.